What is the best GPS Navigation system I can buy for my vehicle with 500 dollars?

My job has issused me a $500 dollar voucher to buy the best GPS I can find, any suggestions?

I just brought a Garmin 750 GPS for $378.00 at Walmart right now, and it is the lowest prices that you can find at this moment. I love it so far, however, I only have for a week. But that is the best brand name out there.

Definitely go with a Garmin Nuvi -- they are the industry leader, and the company is run very well (i.e., aggressively and proactively) so they will be a big player for the foreseeable future -- which means support and (most importantly) map updates for you and your company for a while.

According to a Garmin "price trends" site I found, every model of Garmin's Nuvi line is available for under $500 except three:

UNDER $500:

200, 200W, 205, 205W, 250, 250W, 260, 260W, 270, 350, 360, 370, 650, 660, 670, 680, 750, 760, 780, 850

OVER $500:

770, 880, 5000

Of the ones available in your price range, it's not as easy as "best" -- it's more a matter of picking and choosing what features are important to you.

The Nuvi 780 ($480 at the time of writing) has a free 3-month trial subscription to MSN Direct, as well as most other features offered by Garmin. The Nuvi 680 has similar features but with a full 1-year trial subscription to MSN Direct.

As long as they're paying for it, I'd get the Nuvi 680 because it has lots of features, the 1-year MSN Direct deal, *and* a longer battery life -- 7 hours (the 700 series all have a 5-hour battery life).

Garmin makes really good navigation systems. They are easily updated and have a lot of new technology built into them. I believe one of their models has live traffic updating as well, so it will give you fastest way based on how traffic is at that exact moment.